Posted: 18:24, July 18, 2022 | Updated: 19:54, 18 July 2022
The choice of Prince Harry as the keynote speaker at the UN event honoring Nelson Mandela was mocked by many around the world, including a South African newspaper that sarcastically compared the prince’s status to that of the civil rights hero. Harry was invited to address the UN in New York by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the charity run by Mandela’s family. He was joined by his wife Megan, who appeared in a glittering designer outfit worth around $3,000. Harry used his 15-minute speech to lecture the sparse crowd on climate change, disinformation, the war in Ukraine, COVID and the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe vs Wade. He may have resisted the chance to compare himself to Mandela, but South Africa’s The Sunday Times jumped at the chance. South African columnist Aspasia Karras pokes fun at Prince Harry in a column on Sunday, before Harry speaks. He compared Harry’s Montecito mansion to Robben Island and the frosty treatment of Harry and Meghan by the royal family to the hardships of apartheid “He is in exile. Just like Madiba. No, sorry, of course, he was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island. The same, the same. Harry is imprisoned in his gilded pleasure palace in Montecito with a podcast program and documentary crew following him around,” wrote Sunday Times columnist Aspasia Carrara. In a column on Sunday, before Harry spoke, editor-in-chief Aspasia Carras wrote: “He is in exile. Just like Madiba. “No, sorry, of course, he was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island. The same, the same. “Harry is imprisoned in his gilded pleasure palace in Montecito with a podcast program and documentary crew following him.” She called him the “self-proclaimed Duke of Los Angeles” and said: “Like Mandela, he’s been through a lot. “As he told Oprah in his cri du coeur interview, his family and the British press have been so hard on him and his lovely wife Meghan. All they wanted was to represent. And bring a fast-paced LA management style to the checker’s palace. ‘You know what? They just had to go. It was too much for me to bear.’ “I think Harry is a perfect fit, with the UN being such an effective organization for world peace. “I’m really happy that he can be in the spotlight on such an important day when we remember the sacrifices Mandela made for all of us and our rights. OKAY? “But especially about Harry’s right to a security escort. This will show them,” he wrote. Other critics questioned why Harry, who regularly uses private jets, was chosen to give a speech on climate change. “Our world is on fire!” he told the UN on Monday after arriving in New York with Meghan, who wore more than $3,000 in designer clothes. It is unclear whether the couple arrived in New York by private jet. Representatives for the couple did not immediately respond to questions about their trip, nor did representatives for the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
